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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: You may know her from her days as a professional

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Speaker 2: netball player, one of Australia's best, recently inducted into the

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame in the new South Wales Netball Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, that's you be quiet. Haven't finished yet. You may

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Speaker 1: know her. We did ask her.

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Speaker 2: I know she should just smile knowingly.

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Speaker 1: Also you may know her.

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Speaker 2: As Queen of the Jungle, where she blitched on a

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Speaker 2: celebrity to get me out of here. But it started

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Speaker 2: last night. She is one of the hosts of the

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Speaker 2: new Gladiator series on Channel ten.

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Speaker 1: Hello, this is now you're allowed to talk. Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I love that you tell me to smile nicely. It's radio.

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Speaker 1: People can't see me smile, but they'll feel your.

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Speaker 3: Tonight cameras Now, Liz, I forgot about that doing.

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Speaker 4: I haven't done the rounds of radio for a while.

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Speaker 4: But promoting Gladiators it's really hard work.

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Speaker 1: I used to be able to say.

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Speaker 4: I've got a great head for radio, and now you've

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Speaker 4: got to be able to be on camera.

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Speaker 1: Yes, early in the morning, everyone feels their best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was intrigued. I mean, this fantastic resurgence in

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Speaker 2: your career. You are such a great talent and I

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Speaker 2: just love that this is happening for you. But you

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Speaker 2: said that you were ready to give up TV before

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Speaker 2: I'm a Celebrity came along.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was sort of thinking that television had probably

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Speaker 4: given up on me. So a couple of years ago

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Speaker 4: I was working for Channel nine and my contract finished

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Speaker 4: and the netball rights went from Channel nine to Foxtoel,

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Speaker 4: and I thought, now's the time to take a break.

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Speaker 1: So my husband and I bought a caravan.

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Speaker 4: And took the kids out of school for a year

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Speaker 4: and we traveled around Australia in twenty twenty two and

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Speaker 4: it was fantastic, the absolute best thing we've ever done.

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Speaker 4: If you're thinking about doing it, just stopped thinking about

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Speaker 4: it and just do it. It was so good for our family,

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Speaker 4: it was great for us, and we had a great

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Speaker 4: time to see this beautiful country. So I got back

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Speaker 4: and I thought, I'm fifty, I've got silver hair. Now

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Speaker 4: I've been away. Like if you go away from media

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Speaker 4: for a year, everyone forgets who you are. And I thought, oh,

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Speaker 4: I'll just get a proper job. So I just, you know,

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Speaker 4: got on seek, put in my details and I still

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Speaker 4: get emails every week just in case. You know, all

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Speaker 4: this television stuff all apart. But I just thought i'd

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Speaker 4: go and get a regular job. And then I got

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Speaker 4: the call to do I'm a celebrity, get me out

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Speaker 4: of here from Channel ten.

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Speaker 1: And my initial reaction was not, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: do it.

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Speaker 4: And I made the mistake of letting them send me

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Speaker 4: a little hight reel. And I made another mistake. I

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Speaker 4: watched it with my daughter and she said, Mum, you

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Speaker 4: have to do it, and I said, no way, I

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Speaker 4: don't want to. So why, I said, because imagine what

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Speaker 4: people would say. And she said, Mom, you always tell us.

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Speaker 1: Not to worry about what other people say. And I went,

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Speaker 1: damn it, damn it.

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Speaker 4: You know I taught my kids. I try to teach

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Speaker 4: my kids good things. And then they throw the back

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Speaker 4: at me and neg minted I'm in the jungle and.

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Speaker 2: Also traveling around Australia in a caravan prepared you for

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Speaker 2: the toilet scenario.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's true.

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Speaker 3: Did you have a free wheeling caravan or did you

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Speaker 3: have a winner bay Go?

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Speaker 1: I had a free wheeling cave.

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Speaker 3: Do who back that in?

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Speaker 1: I did? Actually?

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Speaker 3: Really? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So we worked it out that I'm hopeless at giving directions,

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Speaker 4: but I'm good at taking direction.

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Speaker 1: I'm coachable.

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Speaker 4: So we had little walky talkies and I did the backing,

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Speaker 4: and my husband would get on the walk you're talking

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Speaker 4: and tell me what to do. And I received two

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Speaker 4: marriage proposals from blokes who saw me back in the carriage.

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Speaker 1: A very impressive it's very impressied you. Well, this bloke

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Speaker 1: came out and he goes, do you make the lawn love?

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Speaker 1: And I said, actually I like the lad. He goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: can we get married? And I'm like, well, that's my

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Speaker 1: large husband down there.

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Speaker 4: You probably have to get rid of him first, but

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Speaker 4: he's insured, so go for your life.

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Speaker 3: Any caravan park, that's when the entertainment kicks in around

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Speaker 3: about four o'clock, when a late comer comes into the

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Speaker 3: van part everyone watches and everyone's having cheese and bickies,

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Speaker 3: and then you have to back your van totally.

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Speaker 1: That's the entertainment that was always our saying.

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Speaker 4: We had to get going early because we didn't want

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Speaker 4: to be the four o'clock show.

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Speaker 2: As an athlete, when it comes to Gladiator, do you

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Speaker 2: watch that and think that's the bit I can do?

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Speaker 2: I could do that, I could do that, or do

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Speaker 2: you go this is not something that you would could handle.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't do it now, but twenty years ago I

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Speaker 4: would have loved it. And I was never like when

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Speaker 4: do you look at the gladiators. They're so big and

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Speaker 4: strong and superhuman and I was never built like that.

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Speaker 4: But I had plenty of mongrels, So I reckon that

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Speaker 4: would have sort have helped me in good stead, maybe

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Speaker 4: competing against them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now I look at.

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Speaker 4: Them and I'm so happy to be standing on the

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Speaker 4: sidelines in a nice suit.

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Speaker 1: This really does me so much.

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Speaker 2: Mongrel?

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Speaker 1: Would that be your gladiator name? I did mongrelis Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did think about it.

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Speaker 4: My dad's nickname My dad used to drive stock cars

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Speaker 4: back in the day, and his nickname is RecA, and

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Speaker 4: I think that would be a cool nick, cool gladiator name.

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Speaker 1: Wreca about mine before?

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Speaker 2: I think mine will either be Cardigan or English Breakford,

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Speaker 2: something quiet and soothing.

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Speaker 3: And you called me free underpats, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jones, he gets a lot of free merch. You got

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Speaker 2: some free undies today, so he'd be underpants creep up behind.

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Speaker 1: Cafrey bum yea captain underpants.

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Speaker 3: Captain underpats that would be you. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, I also thought about being I used to play

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Speaker 4: for the Swifts, so I thought I could be with

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Speaker 4: Swift and then I would appeal to the tailor Swift

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Speaker 4: fans as well.

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Speaker 1: So I'm already thinking about the is it.

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Speaker 3: We are so glad that you're back on Telly Gladiators

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Speaker 3: tonight from seven thirty on ten and ten play and

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Speaker 3: you haven't become in visible your back baby.

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Speaker 1: I am just I feel really grateful. I feel very grateful.

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Speaker 1: They're grateful to have you, as we all are.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've been doing this for how long now, twenty

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Speaker 3: odd years and I'm invisible, So you know it's good.

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Speaker 1: Is not invisible? Look at you? You're a striking bloke.

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Speaker 2: He's free underpants, compliments, shameless.

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Speaker 3: Look after yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Great to chat to you guys,

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Speaker 1: to see you